Securing Passwords and Secret SALT Values

NOTE: This is only applicable to Senzing API versions prior to Oct 1, 2018. For newer versions please see [Advanced] Selective Hashing and SoftHSM How To

G2 uses an encrypted key store to protect such things as database passwords and secret SALT values used by our advanced Selective Hashing feature.

Technical Notes:

Using PKCS11 in GSKit package (v.8.0.50.x) - https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/t-gsk7/